Tues 12 Sep 2023

Projects, projects and projects. That’s alot of what I do in my free time.

I will update the project page very soon with more stuff that I’m working on. Sadly none of these are programming related. I will also start publishing guides to what I’ve done with some of the projects.

There’s the Raspberry Pi project that uses multiple Raspberry Pi’s and an RF modulator to make your own local TV channels. Then I have a project that’s kinda finished, but due to moving in a few days I haven’t done anything regarding it. Some say it’s stupid, some say it’s pretty cool. I just want to get away from all the devices that track me.

Speaking of which I’ve had on my mind to make this site more easy for me to write stuff for. And while I do want to keep it lightweight and make stuff myself. I don’t feel like I have the motivation to keep making stuff from scratch, while also thinking about security.

I was thinking about making the site into a WordPress blog, that way it would be easier for me to update stuff, but I was also thinking about making a lock or password protected page from where I could drop everything I write into a database so it will load these posts from that.

That can be both a security issue, and a blessing for me. I dont want to make it harder, but right now I manually write the code for this blog. Like I actually write my blog in Notepad, to then add the HTML markup so it looks better on computers.

I have a project that I kinda want to start working on, but it will take some time to make, I think.

A better search engine for mails. Like being able to search for files, and what’s in the files. I’m not sure if other providers have that, But I kinda just want to make it for searching my own mails. I might publish it, if I make it and I find it good enough for others to use.

Many of my projects stays in my hands, or if I send it to someone they might use it once and then it’s forgotten.

One of them being Spody.org I feel like I added a bunch of stuff, and it was in use for a few days and then it just stopped getting any traffic.

Last time someone added something to the site was a few months ago.

Maybe it’s also because the people that I have asked to use it dont see a need for it.

The plan with it was to make it so I could remember which games I had played, which I own, and which I’m currently playing.

I need to update the site soon with more features, since it’s also only in a alpha, or beta. Some features are there on the frontend, but not on the backend. Plus most of the pages could use more info. Google denied many things for the site because there was nothing new on there, and many pages had the same information.

If I need to get more visitors to the platform I might need to give it some kind of overhaul, and also fix a bunch of the issues that there are on the site. Any perhaps also “finish” the site.

With finishing I mean making it functional. Right now on this day then there’s no way to mark a game as complete if you have already marked it as playing. Then it will be in 2 lists.

Perhaps on this site then I should make it so the blog posts have a different file depending on the day, or just make it all downloadable from a database or something, but that might require more data for the end user, so I’m not sure how well I like that idea.

That was a longer update or a longer rant or whatever you want to call it from my end. I might update this later, or tomorrow.